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The price for SSDs continue to fall, and today we’ve rounded up a few of our favorites across a range of capacities. All are modern drives from brands respected for reliability, so you won’t have to take chances with your data to get good value.

If price was the reason you’ve held back on upgrading your aging hard drive, perhaps this can convince you it’s time to ditch the spinning disks and take the plunge. Crucial’s M550 is a modern line of SSDs, boasting self-encryption for security and great specs of 550 MB/s sequential reads, 350 MB/s sequential writes, 90k random reads, and 75k random writes. While 128GB won’t be enough capacity for people who like to store large collections of HD videos and games locally, for those who are mostly storing documents or utilizing cloud storage, 128GB is still downright roomy. For just $50 you can now get all the SSD advantages — quick boots, fast data access, better battery life — from a great brand.

Samsung’s EVO family of SSDs is one of the best around, and you won’t go wrong with an older model like the 840 EVO if you want to save a little money. However, this is a handy 11% discount on a drive that hasn’t been out very long at all. This drive is fast, featuring sequential reads of 550 MB/s, sequential writes of 520 MB/s, random reads of 100K and random writes of 90K.

The 850 also includes the latest version of Samsung Magician with “rapid” mode for utilizing unused PC memory for a speed boost, AES 256-bit hardware encryption, and a five year warranty. Install Navigator also makes migration a snap.

It once was the case that high capacities of flash memory could only be had for exorbitant prices – thankfully, those days are long gone. This drive from OCZ bills itself as a “performance SSD with no tricks up its sleeve,” so here’s the stats on the performance: read speed of 490MB/s, write speed of 450MB/s, and random speeds around the 80K range. Impressively large capacity and fast speeds – if that’s all you need, give this drive a long look. OCZ has a long history of making solid drives and backs this with a three year warranty.

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